Corn-planter



(-No Model.) I v W. G. SELBY. I

7 001m PLANTER'. No. 291,093. Patented Jan. 1, 1884.

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\VILLIAM G. SELBY, OF PRINOEVILLE, ILLINOIS.

CORN-PLANTER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 291,093, dated January 1, 1884.

Application filed February 5, 1883. (No model.)

To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM G. SELBY, of Princeville, in the county of Peoria, in the State of Illinois, have invented an Improved Corn-Planter; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had to the annexed drawings, making a part of this specification, in which like letters of reference refer to like parts, and in which Figure 1 represents a sectional side elevation through 00 ac,- Fig. 2, rear elevation; Fig. 8, details.

In the drawings, A is the seed-box, which I place in the center, laterally, of the planter; and B B are the seed-spouts running from this seed-box to the two shoes S S. Upon said box A, I put the drivers seat A. The two beams T T form a part of the frame-work of the planter, come together, and are extended in front to form the tongue of the machine.

To the pivoted frame F F are secured two supporting-wheels, W V, so that by resting all or a part of his weight upon the forward end, F the driver can raise the whole of the machine from the ground and support it upon the said wheels WV W. The rear end of said frame F F is pivoted or hinged at F to the crossbeam G. A stop-plate, V, prevents the frame F I from going up or down too far.

The shoes S S are similar to those ordinarily in use, with the exception that I have constructed an adjustable gage-plate and packer, P P, to be fastened to each side of them. These said gage-plates are for the purpose of regulating the depth that it is desired to have the shoes SIS sink into the ground, and are adjusted by means of the angle-irons U U, having two or more bolt-holes by which to fasten them to the sides of the shoes S S. The rear ends of said plates P P are bent, as shown, to

pose of covering and packing the earth "upon the seed dropped in the heel of the shoe.

This machine I have shown adapted as a hand-planter, and the construction of the dropping mechanism is as follows: Between the two sides of each shoe S is suspended upon a horizontal axis a thick disk, J, having in its periphery eight (more or less) recesses. At each side of the disk J are ratchet-teeth J four at one side and four at the other-arranged at l ternately with respect the one set to the other. The disk 0, suspended above'the said disk J, has two pawls pivoted to it-one pawl to each set of ratchet-teeth. These two disks 0 G are rocked by the rod D, to which motion is given through the lever D. The seed-dropping disk J is made in two sections, J and J, J being made cup-shaped to fit over the projecting ring K of the other. The projecting part between the recesses K are made slanting, so that by rotating them slightly with respect to each other, the said recesses K are enlarged to suit different sizes of corn, and to regulate the number of kernels of corn to be dropped in each hill. A bolt, M, serves to bind these two parts J and J together, and to retain them as adjusted. A brush, H, serves as the cut-off for the disk J, to prevent more corn from being dropped than that contained in the recesses.

The rod 0", which supports the dropperboys seat 0, is hinged at its end to the crossbeam G and supported in corrugations of the bar Q, which allows the dropper-boys seat 0 to be at either side of the lever D, and permit him to use either hand.

In using this machine the driver can, when going over soft ground, prevent the shoes from sinking too deep into the earth. By resting his. weight upon the end F of the pivoted frame F F, and when about to turn his team around, he lifts the shoes entirely from the ground by putting enough of his weight upon the said end of the frame F F The dropperboy, by giving a lateral push to the lever D, transmits through the rod D, rocker-disks C, and pawls E E E E an intermittent rotary motion to the disks J J, the recesses of which regularly empty themselves as they come out from under the brushes H H. The packers P P press over onto the seed the required amount of soil.

What I claim as my invention is as follows:

1. A frame, F F, hinged or pivoted at one end to the frame-work of a corn-planter, in combination with supporting-wheels having bearings in said frame midway between its pivoted end F and free end F, whereby, when the driver rests his weight upon said free end F the said corn-planter is raised wholly or partially fromthe ground, substantially as and for the purpose specified.

2. The seed-box A, spouts B B, shoes S S,

vention I have hereunto set m y hand this 15th day of January, 1883.

\VILTJAM G. SELBY.

having gageplates and packers l I recessed l disks J J, brushes H H, disks C G, pawls E, bar D, and lever D, in combination with suitable frame-work, the pivoted frame F F stop- I 5 plate V, and the wheels XV \V, substantially i \Vitnesses:

as and for the purpose set forth. J. H. HOPKINS,

In testimony that I. claim the foregoing in- JOSEPH PARENJs. 

